Resultados de búsqueda - "cowpea"
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Improved nutrition and resilience will make conservation agriculture more attractive for Zambian smallholder farmers
Publicado 2021“…Here we assess how the integration of grain legumes, cowpeas and soybeans, in maize-based CA systems either as intercrops or rotational crops affects maize grain yield and stability, total energy yield, protein yield and surplus calories after satisfying the daily requirement per household. …”
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Niger’s agrifood system structure and drivers of transformation
Publicado 2023“…Only 15 percent of the country’s land is arable, and rainfall is seasonal and highly variable. Millet, sorghum, cowpeas, and groundnuts are the major food crops, while pastoralism is a key component of the agricultural system, particularly in the arid regions in the north of the country. …”
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Ghana Africa Research in Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation (Africa RISING) Baseline Evaluation Survey
Publicado 2015“…In particular, they are subject to a seasonal cycle of food insecurity of three to seven months for cereals (i.e., maize, millet and sorghum) and four to seven months for legumes (i.e., groundnuts, cowpeas, and soybeans). These crops in the savannahs are often produced in a continuous monoculture, steadily depleting soil natural resources and causing the yields per unit area to fall to very low levels. …”
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Small seed packs, efficient approach to reach hard to reach in drought prone areas: experiences from Kenya
Publicado 2012“…For instance Dryland seed company has already started using small packs for beans, cowpeas, mungo beans and maize in 500g, 1kg and 2kg rather five kg packs.…”
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Unlocking the potential of dryland underutilised crops through market linkages approaches
Publicado 2025“…Zambia’s dryland underutilized crops, including sorghum, millets, cowpeas, groundnuts, and pigeon peas, present a transformative opportunity to enhance food security, climate resilience, and economic growth in the country’s semi-arid regions. …”
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Generating plausible crop distribution and performance maps for Sub-Saharan Africa using a spatially disaggregated data fusion and optimization approach
Publicado 2007“…Using the modified spatial allocation model, we generated 5-minute (approximately 10-km) resolution grid maps for 20 major crops across Sub-Saharan Africa, namely barley, dry beans, cassava, cocoa, coffee, cotton, cowpeas, groundnuts, maize, millet, oil palm, plantain, potato, rice, sorghum, soybeans, sugar cane, sweet potato, wheat, and yam. …”
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Community phytosanitation to manage cassava brown streak disease
Publicado 2017“…The transition was also supported by the free provision of additional seed sources, including maize, sweet potato, beans and cowpeas. Progress of the initiative was followed in randomly-selected monitoring fields in each of the two locations. …”
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